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June 29, 2008
I have never written a letter to a liturgy committee.
I have never written a letter to a liturgy committee, but there's always a first time for everything.
The parish has instituted an evening mass at the Colleges' chapel as a year round thing - yay! mass on campus is no longer under threat! However, the music has been pretty - um - minimal. Tonight was a man and woman - he played the guitar. They both had quite nice voices. I didn't like their hymn selections much (we started out with "They will know that we are Christians" and went on from there), but it was the recessional that has me stunned:
"How Great Thou Art" to a harmonica accompaniment.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 29, 2008 6:06 PM
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It's things like this that make me understand why my father always went to Mass at 7.30am, where there was no music and everyone sat so far apart that there was no way or necessity of offering the sign of peace.
Sermons also took no longer than 5 minutes, which in my estimation, was another mark in its favour.
Posted by: Nick Thompson at June 29, 2008 7:53 PM
If it were a chromatic harmonica, maybe. But a diatonic harmonica or octave harmonica, no.
.....It's always good to know that one's friends have standards. --MCT
Posted by: 1050 lb. at June 30, 2008 10:58 AM
None of that ever would have happened when I was in charge! More seriously--but only slightly--it seems that orchestration is growing, a good thing; though I, like Mister Bill, now also lack a legacy.
Posted by: Thomas B at July 1, 2008 4:17 PM